Mara G. Haseltine

Mara G. Haseltine is an international artist, a pioneer in the field of SciArt, and an environmental activist and educator. Haseltine frequently collaborates with scientists and engineers to create work that addresses the link to between our cultural and biological evolution. Her work takes place in the studio lab and field infusing scientific inquiry with poetry. As a young artist she worked for the French American artist Nicki de saint Phalle laying mosaics at her monumental Tarot Garden in Tuscany, Italy as well as with the Smithsonian Museum in conjunction with National Museum of Trinidad and Tobago in Port of Spain Trinidad. In the early 2000’s she began her first art and science collaboration with scientists decoding the human genome. She was a pioneer in the translation of scientific data and bioinformatics into three-dimensional sculptures and became known for her outsized renditions of microscopic and sub- microscopic life.

Haseltine is a founder of the “green salon’ which was based out of Washington DC in the mid 2000’s, a working group devoted to environmental solutions connecting policy makers and businesses. Though many of her environmental works are awareness pieces often focusing on humanity’s relationship to the microscopic world some of her works act as functional solutions to environmental degradation. She has studied sustainable reef restoration methods extensively for the past 15 years and has been a contributing member to the Global Coral Reef Alliance since 2006, as their NYC representative and has been involved in their initiative for sustainable solutions with SIDS or the Small Island States at the United Nations.